The Grainger College of Engineering
Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab

Graduate Students

Name E-mail Advisor
Abdelghany Abouelnagga
he/him/his
 aaa31@illinois.edu Advisor: Can Bayram (PHD)
Sheikh Afrid
he/him/his
 safrid2@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (MS)
Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Josh Akin
jdakin2@illinois.edu Advisor: Kejie Fang (PHD)
Alex George Armstrong
alexga2@illinois.edu Advisor: Michelle Tomaszycki (PHD)
Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (PHD)
Chloe Armstrong
chloeca2@illinois.edu Advisor: Kent Choquette (MS)
Advisor: Kent Choquette (PHD)
Hossein Ataee
he/him/his
 hataee2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Takhmina Ayupova
ayupova2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Amanda Bacon
bacon4@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Ále Baptista
he/him/his
 aeb7@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Priyash Barya
pbarya2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (MS)
Advisor: Elizabeth Goldschmidt (PHD)
Emily Louise Becher
ebecher2@illinois.edu Advisor: John Dallesasse (PHD)
Zhengyi Bian
zbian4@illinois.edu Advisor: Stephan Link (PHD)
Advisor: Shuming Nie (PHD)
Adrian Robert Morin Birge
arbirge2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Advisor: Moonsub Shim (PHD)
Jasper Bradford
he/him/his
 jasperb3@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Ryan Bushell
he/him/his
 rbushell@illinois.edu
Mingyu Cai
mingyu10@illinois.edu
Rajat Chakraborty
rajatc2@illinois.edu Advisor: Jean-Pierre Leburton (PHD)
Div Chamria
he/him/his
 chamria2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mikael Backlund (PHD)
Gayatri Pushpita Chandran
gpc4@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Keith Joshua Chang
keithjc2@illinois.edu Advisor: Can Bayram (PHD)
Shomik Chatterjee
shomikc2@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Derek R. Chaw
drchaw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Milton Feng (PHD)
Claudia Chen
she/her/hers
 borungc2@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Daren Chen
he/him/his
 darenc2@illinois.edu Advisor: Elizabeth Goldschmidt (PHD)
Wang-Chien Chen
he/him/his
 wcc4@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Xin Chen
xinc6@illinois.edu
Ze-Wei Chen
zeweic3@illinois.edu Advisor: Hyunseok Kim (PHD)
Hyeongjun Cho
he/him/his
 hc72@illinois.edu Advisor: Xing Wang (PHD)
Sam Cross
jscross3@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Advisor: Dale Van Harlingen (PHD)
Nolan Cummins
he/him/his
 nolanc3@illinois.edu
William Curry
wjcurry2@illinois.edu Advisor: Rongming Chu (MS)
Garrett Czajkowski
he/him/his
 gczajk2@illinois.edu Advisor: Kyekyoon Kim (PHD)
Swadhina Das
she/her/hers
 das33@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Ankan Dastider
he/him/his
 agd6@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (MS)
Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Joan Vital Daye
she/her/hers
 jdaye3@illinois.edu Advisor: Katelyn Talbott
Thuy Dung Tran Doan
td21@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Haiyue Dong
haiyued2@illinois.edu Advisor: Nadya Mason (PHD)
Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Yicong Dong
he/him/his
 yicongd2@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (MS)
Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Andrew Dou
zhidou2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mattia Gazzola (PHD)
William Cartwright Drennan
he/him/his
 wcd2@illinois.edu Advisor: M Taher Saif (PHD)
Yuxin Du
she/her/hers
 yuxindu3@illinois.edu Advisor: Rongming Chu (PHD)
Nikita Duggar
she/her/hers
 nduggar2@illinois.edu Advisor: Lynford Goddard (PHD)
Hubert Elly
helly2@illinois.edu Advisor: Can Bayram (PHD)
Leah Espenhahn
leahe2@illinois.edu Advisor: John Dallesasse (PHD)
Xizheng Fang
xizheng2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Muhammad Fayyaz
mfayyaz2@illinois.edu Advisor: Andrew Smith (PHD)
Max Feidler
he/him/his
 feidler2@illinois.edu Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Jason Flanagan
jasonpf2@illinois.edu Advisor: John Dallesasse (MS)
Michael Alexander Gachich
mgachi2@illinois.edu Advisor: Peter Dragic (MS)
Advisor: Peter Dragic (PHD)
Jingxing Gao
jg47@illinois.edu Advisor: Lynford Goddard (PHD)
Mohammadreza Ghaderinia
he/him/his
 mg77@illinois.edu Advisor: Rashid Bashir (PHD)
Aayushman Ghosh
he/him/his
 aghosh14@illinois.edu Advisor: Lynford Goddard (PHD)
Jared Gibson
jaredg2@illinois.edu Advisor: Angela Kou (PHD)
Miles Guo
he/him/his
 ziangg2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (PHD)
Garima Devesh Gupta
gdgupta2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (MS)
Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (PHD)
Junkyu Ha
he/him/his
 junkyu2@illinois.edu Advisor: Cunjiang Yu (PHD)
Xiaoxue Han
xiaoxue6@illinois.edu Advisor: Joseph Irudayaraj (PHD)
A. K. M. Naziul Haque
he/him/his
 akhaque2@illinois.edu Advisor: Kejie Fang (PHD)
Laura Heller
lheller4@illinois.edu Advisor: Elizabeth Goldschmidt (PHD)
Da Hye Hong
she/her/hers
 dhhong3@illinois.edu Advisor: Simeon Bogdanov (PHD)
Advisor: Daniel Shoemaker (PHD)
Cornell Horne, Jr
chorne7@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (MS)
Ya-Hsin Hsiao
yahsinh2@illinois.edu Advisor: Nathan Gabrielson (MS)
Jierui Hu
he/him/his
 jieruih3@illinois.edu Advisor: Kejie Fang (MS)
Jack Huang
jackh4@illinois.edu Advisor: Lynford Goddard (PHD)
Jason Huang
sh3@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Siyuan Huang
siyuanh2@illinois.edu Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Rebecca Huang
she/her/hers
 sh109@illinois.edu Advisor: Yun-Sheng Chen (MS)
Tianda Huang
tiandah2@illinois.edu
Yi-Shuo Huang
he/him/his
 yishuoh2@illinois.edu Advisor: Rongming Chu (PHD)
Zihao Huang
zihaoh5@illinois.edu Advisor: Yun-Sheng Chen (PHD)
Judy Hutson
jhutson2@illinois.edu Advisor: Joseph Lyding (MS)
Advisor: Peter Dragic (PHD)
Gabriel Vicente Inojosa
gvi2@illinois.edu
Abdullah Irfan
irfan3@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Nathaniel Atticus Irwin
he/him/his
 nairwin2@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Jai Israni
he/him/his
 jai6@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Shinto James
he/him/his
 shintoj2@illinois.edu Advisor: Andrew Smith (PHD)
Jun Young Jeon
he/him/his
 jyjeon3@illinois.edu Advisor: Hyunseok Kim (PHD)
Sanghyun Jeon
sjeon19@illinois.edu Advisor: Ying Diao (PHD)
Henry David Jetmore
jetmore2@illinois.edu Advisor: Catherine Murphy (PHD)
Tim Jiang
chij2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Aryaman Joshi
he/him/his
 aj49@illinois.edu Advisor: Hyunjoon Kong (PHD)
Md Saddam Hossain Joy
msjoy2@illinois.edu Advisor: M Taher Saif (PHD)
Carlos Juarez Yescas
carlosj3@illinois.edu Advisor: Paul Braun (PHD)
Jason Jung
jasondj2@illinois.edu Advisor: Gaurav Bahl (MS)
Ahmadreza Kashefi
he/him/his
 kashefi2@illinois.edu Advisor: M Taher Saif (PHD)
Kimia Kazemi
kkazemi2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mattia Gazzola (PHD)
-. Kevin Daniel
kdaniel5@illinois.edu Advisor: Axel Hoffmann (PHD)
Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Bora Kim
borak2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Darwon Kim
he/him/his
 darwonk2@illinois.edu
Gwan In Kim
he/him/his
 gikim2@illinois.edu Advisor: Gaurav Bahl (PHD)
Philip Kim
he/him/his
 jk101@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Seho Kim
he/him/his
 seho2@illinois.edu Advisor: Gaurav Bahl (PHD)
Yongsung Kim
he/him/his
 yk3@illinois.edu Advisor: Moonsub Shim (MS)
Jingyang Kong
she/her/hers
 jk105@illinois.edu Advisor: J. Gary Eden (PHD)
Katie Koprowski
kbk3@illinois.edu Advisor: Rashid Bashir (PHD)
Chia-Wei Kuo
cwkuo2@illinois.edu Advisor: Andrew Smith (PHD)
Bao Hoang Lam
baohl2@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Thi Kim Tuyen Le
she/her/hers
 ktle2@illinois.edu Advisor: David Cahill (PHD)
Devon Owen Lee
he/him/his
 devonol2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Han Lee
hankeun2@illinois.edu
Ki Yun Lee
kiyunyl2@illinois.edu Advisor: M Taher Saif (PHD)
Alex Lee
he/him/his
 salee6@illinois.edu Advisor: Yun-Sheng Chen (PHD)
Siun Lee
siunlee2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Junhao Lin
he/him/his
 junhaol6@illinois.edu
Ye Lin
yelin4@illinois.edu Advisor: Wenjuan Zhu (MS)
Advisor: Wenjuan Zhu (PHD)
Alex Littlefield
he/him/his
 ajl8@illinois.edu Advisor: Lynford Goddard (MS)
Advisor: Lynford Goddard (PHD)
Fanming Liu
he/him/his
 fanming3@illinois.edu Advisor: Rongming Chu (PHD)
Haoran Liu
he/him/his
 haoran7@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Jiazheng Liu
he/him/his
 jl266@illinois.edu Advisor: Nenad Miljkovic (PHD)
Leyang Liu
leyangl2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (MS)
Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Shengyan Liu
sl90@illinois.edu Advisor: Kejie Fang (PHD)
Suhao Liu
he/him/his
 suhaol2@illinois.edu Advisor: Fan Lam (PHD)
Zetai Liu
zetail2@illinois.edu Advisor: Milton Feng (PHD)
Akshit Mahajan
he/him/his
 am159@illinois.edu Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (MS)
Advisor: Rohit Bhargava (PHD)
Rifat Mahmud
rmahmud2@illinois.edu Advisor: Sanjiv Sinha (PHD)
Harshvardhan Mantry
he/him/his
 hmantry2@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Anik Mazumder
he/him/his
 anik2@illinois.edu Advisor: J. Gary Eden (MS)
Advisor: John Dallesasse (PHD)
Iliana Minervini Vega
she/her/hers
 ilianam3@illinois.edu
Mahshad Mirshafeeyan
she/her/hers
 mahshad2@illinois.edu Advisor: Andrew Smith (PHD)
Yuvraj Misra
he/him/his
 ymisra2@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (MS)
Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Niousha Mousavi
she/her/hers
 mousavi3@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Razan Naffakh
razann2@illinois.edu
Siva Nalla
snalla2@illinois.edu Advisor: Andrew Smith (PHD)
Hyunjun Nam
hn7@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Soumak Nandi
he/him/his
 soumakn2@illinois.edu
My Thi Tra Nguyen
mytn2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Ke Nie
kenie2@illinois.edu Advisor: Angela Kou (PHD)
Eric Nieto Gonzalez
he/him/his
 enieto5@illinois.edu Advisor: Joseph Lyding (MS)
Anastasiya Osher
aosher2@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Randy Allen Owen
randyo2@illinois.edu Advisor: Angela Kou (PHD)
Vivedha Palanisamy Sivakumar
she/her/hers
 vpp5@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Daniel Wiley Pflug
he/him/his
 dwpflug@illinois.edu Advisor: Kent Choquette (MS)
Advisor: Kent Choquette (PHD)
Cheeranjeev Purmessur
cp45@illinois.edu Advisor: Angela Kou (PHD)
Siyuan Qian
siyuanq3@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Yueying Qiu
yueying9@illinois.edu Advisor: Yun-Sheng Chen (PHD)
Erin Marie Raftery
raftery3@illinois.edu Advisor: Kent Choquette (PHD)
Saeedur Rahman
saeedur2@illinois.edu Advisor: M Taher Saif (PHD)
Sonia Rani
soniar2@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Fazlur Rashid
fazlurr2@illinois.edu Advisor: Ning Wang (PHD)
Tucson Richelson
he/him/his
 tucsonr@illinois.edu
Archishman Saha
he/him/his
 asaha10@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Furkan Sahbaz
fsahbaz2@illinois.edu Advisor: Simeon Bogdanov (PHD)
Swetapadma Sahoo
sahoo5@illinois.edu Advisor: Simeon Bogdanov (PHD)
Mahmud Samdani
he/him/his
 gms13@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (MS)
Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Maria Grace Scannell
she/her/hers
 mariags4@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Jisung Seo
he/him/his
 jisungs2@illinois.edu Advisor: Hyunseok Kim (PHD)
Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Yoonjoo Seo
yoonjoo3@illinois.edu Advisor: Na Wei (PHD)
Connor Shannon
he/him/his
 connor28@illinois.edu Advisor: Xin Ning (PHD)
Yulei Shen
she/her/hers
 yuleis2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Skye Shepherd
skyes2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Joseph Silberman
he/him/his
 jrs11@illinois.edu
Kaushik Singirikonda
ks105@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Kewei Song
keweis2@illinois.edu Advisor: Milton Feng (PHD)
Zhantao Song
he/him/his
 zhantao2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mattia Gazzola (PHD)
Anqi Tan
anqitan2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Joseph Tibbs
he/him/his
 jtibbs2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Chun-Chia Tsai
cctsai4@illinois.edu
Ashwin Tunga
tunga2@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Arjun Tyagi
he/him/his
 arjun25@illinois.edu
Gaurav Upadhyay
gauravu2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mattia Gazzola (PHD)
Alexander Michael Upah
he/him/his
 aupah2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Timothy Usey
he/him/his
 tusey2@illinois.edu Advisor: Can Bayram (PHD)
An Bao Van
he/him/his
 anbv2@illinois.edu Advisor: Rashid Bashir (PHD)
Santiago Vargas-Daniels
he/him/his
 sv44@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Berre Vize
she/her/hers
 vize2@illinois.edu Advisor: Can Bayram (PHD)
Jack Walberer
johnaw4@illinois.edu
Hsien-Nung Wang
hnwang3@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Qixian Wang
he/him/his
 qixianw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mattia Gazzola (PHD)
Robert Wang
he/him/his
 rlwang2@illinois.edu Advisor: Lynford Goddard (MS)
Siyuan Wang
siyuan2@illinois.edu Advisor: Peter Dragic (MS)
Advisor: Peter Dragic (PHD)
Wanqi Wang
she/her/hers
 wanqiw3@illinois.edu Advisor: Na Wei (PHD)
Yiteng Wang
yitengw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Advisor: Moonsub Shim (PHD)
Yizun Wang
yizunw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Fan Lam (PHD)
Yu-Hsin Wang
yuhsinw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Nathan Gabrielson (MS)
Zijun Wang
he/him/his
 zijun4@illinois.edu Advisor: Patrick Draper (PHD)
Zirui Wang
ziruiw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Nicola Perry (PHD)
Advisor: Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez (PHD)
Matthew Wester
mwester3@illinois.edu Advisor: Rashid Bashir (PHD)
Victor Williams
he/him/his
 vhw3@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Brendan F. Wolan
wolan2@illinois.edu Advisor: Joseph Lyding (PHD)
Katy Wolhaupter
kew8@illinois.edu Advisor: Rashid Bashir (PHD)
Isaac Mark Wolstenholme
isaacmw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Wenjuan Zhu (PHD)
Ryan Wong
ryanw13@illinois.edu
Sunny Wong
sunnyw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Violet Workman
she/her/hers
 violet2@illinois.edu Advisor: Gaurav Bahl (PHD)
Johnathan Wright
jw178@illinois.edu Advisor: Can Bayram (PHD)
Sophie Wu
she/her/hers
 yuwu9@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Jacky Xiang
jiayix7@illinois.edu Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (PHD)
David Xiong
daweix3@illinois.edu
Fengyuan Xu
he/him/his
 fx2@illinois.edu Advisor: Andrew Smith (PHD)
Kleo Xu
wx5@illinois.edu Advisor: Joseph Lyding (PHD)
Xiaotong Xu
she/her/hers
 xx28@illinois.edu Advisor: Wenjuan Zhu (PHD)
Jerry Yan
he/him/his
 ruijiey3@illinois.edu
Na Yang
she/her/hers
 nay3@illinois.edu Advisor: Cunjiang Yu (PHD)
Xiaodong Ye
he/him/his
 xye11@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Batu Yesilyurt
batuy2@illinois.edu
Junxi Yi
junxiyi2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yun-Sheng Chen (PHD)
Dong Young Yoon
he/him/his
 dy11@illinois.edu Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Sarah Su-O Youn
ssyoun2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Yung Man Yu
ymyu2@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Hao Yuan
he/him/his
 haoy10@illinois.edu Advisor: Kejie Fang (PHD)
Hongbo Yuan
hongboy2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mattia Gazzola (PHD)
Peter Zeidler
peterz7@illinois.edu
Suyang Zhang
suyangz4@illinois.edu Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (PHD)
Zhixin Zhang
zhixin2@illinois.edu Advisor: Axel Hoffmann (PHD)
Kevin Zhao
helinlz2@illinois.edu Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Yunlei Zhao
yunleiz2@illinois.edu Advisor: Kejie Fang (PHD)
Jinhao Zheng
he/him/his
 jinhaoz3@illinois.edu
Yushi Zhou
he/him/his
 yushiz2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)